Whitmore Heath
Household
Whitmore Heath is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Madeley, Staffordshire. It received household waste between 1949 and 1959, covering about 1.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD23392, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23392 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Whitmore Heath |
| Address | Snape Hall Road, Whitmore Heath, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 26 November 1949 |
| Last waste input | 16 April 1959 |
| Area | 1.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 379400, 341000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- ReservoirIndustrial
- Tip at Baldwins GateLiquid / sludge
- Chorlton Moss TiplIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- SandpitLiquid / sludgeCommercial
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.